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Jamf Pro 11.5.0 Beta is Now Available

Hello Jamf Nation!We have several exciting new features including new Login functionality, Managed Software Updates enhancements, Packages page redesign, and more! You can find more information in the release notes when you enroll.Starting with the J...  View more

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Adobe Provisioning Tool for Mac for Acrobat X

Hi Guys Does anyone have a copy of this tool they can send me? I have downloaded from adobe via their link Enterprise administration | Acrobat family of products and it fails to run, all sites i go to just point me back to this site, Does anyone have...  View more

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Pkg error

I get this error when installing package. Process: Sync Student [16937] Path: /Applications/SMART Technologies/SyncStudent.app/Contents/MacOS/Sync Student Identifier: com.smarttech.SMARTSyncStudent Version: ??? (???) Build Info: Unknown-0~556 Code Ty...  View more

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Re-deploy self service items during re-image

Does anyone have a method for automatically re-deploying applications and printers that a user installed via Self Service when re-imaging a machine and/or moving the user to a new machine? Thanks,Brian --Brian GoldsteinSinger Consulting, Inc.brian at...  View more

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JSS cert not working - Macs not checking in

We had a valid certificate in place when JSS was at 7.1, and when we moved to 7.31 we made sure the certificate continued to work. Today we noticed that roughly 200 of the 1800 Macs in JSS are checking in...and the remaining 1600 Macs show Last Time ...  View more

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Off topic Port control

I wanted to see what, if anything anyone was using for port control on their Mac's? We are looking for a product that can be used for managing USB devices, and eventually other devices, and for central management. If anyone can let me know I would ap...  View more

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Casper 8.22 Managed Preferences

Has anyone had any luck getting the JSS Managed Preferences to work with Restricted Applications? I am currently going off of the recommendation of our contact at JAMF and he said to enable the restrictions, and only use a whitelist or a blacklist se...  View more

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LDAP lookups to populate "Location" in JSS

Hello everyone, I have the AD/LDAP "Server Connection" enabled and working within my 8.1 JSS and I am now trying to find the best way to automagically populate the "Location" fields ("Real Name", "Email Address"...) I found this old threadhttp://list...  View more

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Changing default applications for file types

Hello! I'm wondering if there's any way to change what application opens a giventype of file. In my specific case, I'd like to set either Adobe Reader orPreview to open pdfs, instead of Adobe Acrobat. So far as I can tell, this is controlled on a per...  View more

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Self Service Policie Ideas

We are in the process of deploying Casper company wide. I am wondering what cool things people are doing with self service and policies. Any input would help! Rich DagelRestoration Hardware  View more

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Restricting airdrop

Hi ,I am looking to disable airdrop on our Lion OS 10.7 computers. Is anyone using a manifest or plist file to restrict airdrop that they will share so I can create a manage preference?Thanks Michael BurdettSr. Computer SpecialistDepartment of Surger...  View more

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Self Service Plugins - Refresh?

Hey all, I put a few URL plugins into Self Service. I tried telling the JAMF binary to do a recon, then run policies (general as well as the every15), but I am not able to predict when the new plugins will show up in Self Service.app. What am I missi...  View more

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Casper implications of the Thunderbolt Display

Hey list, I was reading anandtech's review of the new thunderbolt display, and I'm wondering how casper will handle the ethernet controller that's built into the display. If you click on the link to the article, you'll see that the display's ethernet...  View more

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MCX System-Wide items won't take (Ness, Todd)

Same issue as Sandy and Clinton in our environment. On certain machine withAirport card, the localhost record is picking up the Airport Mac addresswhich is preventing MCX from being applied properly. The solution presented by Todd to modify the ENetA...  View more

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Software Update on Firstboot

I was wondering what's the best method to run software update on firstboot after imaging a machine. I don't always get around to updating an image in a timely manner and there will be some software updates that come out during that time. Instead of r...  View more

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New MacBook Pro

Hello all, I just got a new MacBook Pro with Lion OS and I want to run my JAMF Pre-stage image with 10.6.8 and of course it will not net boot to the image. Since this hardware is has not dramatically changed I didn't think that it would be a big deal...  View more

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New Mac OS X Trojan disguises itself as Adobe Flash

Hi Karthikeyan, Mac OS has a mechanism to do; "Automatically update safe download list" inSystem Preferences / Security. That should take care of it I wish tobelieve... See here for more infohttp://support.apple.com/kb/ht4651 You can check the last m...  View more

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add login keychain item to user

Hey everyone, I am about to deploy a user agent and this is the rough idea, please give me feed back, pointers, suggestions, or if you wish to sacrifice some livestock to please the computer gods feel free. #!/bin/bash # set user's login.keychain to ...  View more

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OS X compatibility issue.

I have the same OS on the composing computer as the clients. (10.6.8).Some of the packages composed give me an error after installation of theapp. It saysŠ."check with the developer to see if this version iscompatible with the version of OS X." Any t...  View more

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Need a script to give folder rights

Morning to all, Does anyone have a basic script that I can use to give my users rights to a specific folder. Here is an example. After I push the ESKO software the users have to have full rights to: HD/Users/Shared/EskoArtworks Also HD/Applications/A...  View more

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Casper Admin - Configurations - how to organise

Hi list, I'm sure this is a topic that’s gone round and round, I've read a few bits, but just want to get the lists ideas. I have one base configuration that has a vanilla OS and then the required software packages to be installed. I'm then creating ...  View more

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trouble restoring database

Hi,I'm getting an error "Encountered an error while attempting to restore the JSS database" when trying to restore my database that was created in v. 8.2.2 and trying to restore using 8.2.2. I recently had to wipe my server and updated to 10.6.8 and ...  View more

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SEP AV definitions date/version

Hey guys/gals Just wondering if anyone has a way of getting the SEP virus definitionsdate/version into Casper? I've looked through Symantec's support site (outof desperation) and went through the various files in the/Library/Application Support/Syman...  View more

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m86 filter

Hey Everyone, Is anyone using this? How are you deploying it, un-installing, and upgrading the client? This company is nearly 100% windows centric, and I had to get their deployment kit to run under WINE on my Mac since it only comes as an MSI file. ...  View more

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Licensed software report - how?

I'm looking for a way to do a simple licensed software count for aparticular computer group, but I am stumped. I have all my software definitions set up. I can run an ApplicationDistribution Report against a group, but all that gives me is a breakdow...  View more

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Mac malware uses Windows-style PDF camouflage ruse

Have you guys seen this? I will be checking with McAfee to see there is adefinition update to detect this.Anyway to use Casper to restrict this?http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/23/mac_malware_pdf_disguise/  View more

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8.22 upgrade

Finally tried upgrading to 8.22 on my production server, and that server already has a font manager running on port 8443,The upgrade did not pickup on the fact that I need JSS running on 443.I see the jss process running, but cannot connect with any ...  View more

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AAMEE 2.1 Release notes

http://wwwimages.adobe.com/www.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/devnet/creativesuite/pdfs/AdobeApplicationManagerEnterpriseEditionReadme_v2_1.pdf New and Changed in this Release: • Existing packages can be updated • Additional suites are supported • Li...  View more

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